Sigh, Wishful thinking. We can't even let one of out soldiers kill an enemy terrorist at this point.
This story of the marine has me pretty demoralized. I just don't see how we are every going to have a clear desicive victory again with this rulebook.
The Pentagon will clear this Marine, I'm confident. We are doing the extremely hard work in Iraq to kill the insurgents, while protecting civilians, infrastructure, and building a democracy. It would not make sense for us to carpet bomb even the ratholes like Fallujah if we want Allawi to succeed. If we go to war with China, we would use primarily missiles, naval, and air attacks. No chinese ship, aircraft or soldier would reach our shores.